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Baldwin theorizes whiteness as the psychology of empire.

James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, 2 August 1924.

Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”